I kept her even though I suspect some Polish in her background. Her Dad is lengthy. Her toes number 4 and she has a ridge in her comb. Is this considered a Morehead Grey?
The straight comb is recessive in the RIW. It happens. Cackle purchased its R.I.W steaight combs as culls from R.I.W breeders working on bringing back the breed.
I inquired with Cackle Hatchery. A hatchery with a history of purchasing breeding stock from quality breeders of several different breeds.
I asked about this not a real breed business. Turns out the R.I.W steaight comb stock are culls that hatched with a straight comb. Which if you look at what...
The markings more than the obvious DQ.I need to start with what color is more desirable. Then move through the DQs. I have to girls from the Crele roo. One has a kinky comb the other does not. Finding a male in AK is tough with 2 breeders here. One place has a mess of males they are growing out...
I was looking at those and when I saw Leghorn I realized it was a waste of males. Currently working on a dual purpose layer of bright green. The hybrid is handy as they mature faster and have superior thrivability.
I have been told that after the first cross the egg production drops alot. That the best thing to do is just get a Leghorn roo and add him to a flock of pure AM hens. Eat the males and keep the hens for layers. I am using a dual purpose breed in my AM hybrid project so the males are meatier. LH...
My rearch tells me that Delwares and white rocks are fast growing dual purpose birds. I grew out a dozen cornish crosses last fall. The hens were great. I detected an odor while butchering the males and the meat tasted like that. Maybe 10 weeks was to long. I cannot find a hatchery to sex them...
So this little one hatched from my BBS/Paint flock. Grampa was a blue cream looking bird that popped up in a paryridge flock. As a chick it was orange and blue. Not Splash or blue. Can self blue come from creamblue?
I don't leave them in the bator either. A ten gallon tank makes a nice ambient draft free clean brood for the first few days. My incubator is gross after a few days of hatching if they are left and I worry about belly infections
Can a breeder of Blue Creams post a picture of new chicks?
I have hatched a few oddly shadded wild marked chicks in the past that turned into what people are calling blue creams.